{"id":6352,"date":"2013-10-15T02:27:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T02:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/mlb-umpire-wally-bell-dies-2\/"},"modified":"2013-10-15T02:27:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-15T02:27:00","slug":"mlb-umpire-wally-bell-dies-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/mlb-umpire-wally-bell-dies-2\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB umpire Wally Bell dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Veteran MLB umpire Wally Bell died Monday after suffering a heart attack.<\/p>\n<p>Bell, 48, passed away in his hometown on Youngstown, Ohio after suffering a massive heart attack, according to multiple media reports.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am deeply saddened and shocked at the loss of Umpire Wally Bell,&#8221; MLB executive vice president of baseball operations Joe Torre said. &#8220;Umpiring was his life, and he touched so many people within the game of baseball. Aside from being an accomplished, All-Star-caliber umpire, Wally was a loving dad to his two teenage children. I extend my deepest condolences to them, his girlfriend Renee, the rest of his family and his admirers across Major League Baseball.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bell, who had just worked the NLDS series between the St. Louis Cardinals and Pittsburgh Pirates, had quintuple bypass surgery in 1999.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Veteran MLB umpire Wally Bell died Monday after suffering a heart attack. Bell, 48, passed away in his hometown on Youngstown, Ohio after suffering a massive heart attack, according to multiple media reports. &#8220;I am deeply saddened and shocked at the loss of Umpire Wally Bell,&#8221; MLB executive vice president of baseball operations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}